Further, the order that twelve bells were to be pendent on the robe of the High Priest was a symbol of the twelve Apostles, who were dependent on the power of Christ the everlasting Priest, by whose voices all the earth was called with the glory and grace of God and His Christ. Therefore also David says: Into all the earth did their sound go forth, and their sayings unto the ends of the world.Psalms 19:4
And Isaiah, as in the very person of the Apostles telling Christ that men believe not by hearing them but by the power of Him that sent them, says therefore as follows: Lord, who believed our report? And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? We announced before Him as a child, as a root in a thirsty land, and the rest of the prophecy as already stated.
But his using the phrase as in the person of many, We announced before Him, and then adding as a child, makes it clear that the wicked became obedient to Him, and submitted to His command, and all were as it were one child. And this kind of thing may be seen in the case of the body. Though there are many members when numbered they altogether are called one, and it is a body. For a populace too and an assembly (ecclesia), though they are many men in number, yet as forming but one thing are called and addressed by one appellation.
And in fact all the other things, Gentlemen, I said, which were appointed by Moses, I can enumerate and prove to be types, and figures, and announcements of those persons who were foreknown as about to believe in Him, and similarly of those things which were to be done by Christ Himself. But since what I have already enumerated appears to me to be sufficient, I pass on and address myself to the subject in order.